School Website Length to Graduate: 4 Years Location: MA-South Hadley Students per Class: 1-10 Tuition to Graduate: $160,280 Subject: Dance

DESCRIPTION

Dance at Mount Holyoke offers a comprehensive curriculum emphasizing technical training, creative experimentation, and critical/theoretical understanding. The department is renowned for extensive studio offerings in ballet technique, modern technique, and repertory/performance, as well as its regular offerings in West African Dance and rotating offerings in tap, jazz, contact improvisation, and other forms. Theory courses range from scientific foundations of dance to twentieth-century dance history to choreography and dance aesthetics. The department’s classes are augmented by the more than 100 theory and studio courses offered annually through the Five College Dance Department.

Both majors and minors have opportunities to train with guest artists, as well as to develop and perform new work. Each academic year concludes with a showcase performance featuring both students and faculty.

ADVANTAGES

The Five College Dance Department is one of the largest dance departments in the country and combines the programs of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The faculty meets to coordinate curricula, course scheduling, performances, and other services. The Five College Dance Department supports a variety of philosophical approaches to dance and provides an opportunity for students to experience a wide spectrum of performance styles and techniques. Course offerings are coordinated among the campuses to facilitate registration, interchange, and student travel; students may take a dance course on any of the five campuses and receive credit at their home institution.

THINGS TO CONSIDER

Beginning this fall, the MHC Dance Department will have its own wing in the renovated Kendall complex, including two spacious new dance studios and a state-of-the-art Studio Theater, with comfortable new and expanded seating, and a 20×50 skylight.

FINANCIAL AID

Because Mount Holyoke is committed to educating exceptionally talented women, we offer both merit-based and need-based aid to qualified applicants.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships are available.

CERTIFICATIONS

Mount Holyoke College is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., through its Commission on Institutions of Higher Education.

SUMMARY

Aesthetic principles. Physical practices. The journey from studio to stage. Dance is an exploration of how the body speaks; how cultural and historical traditions shape the language of expression; and how choreography is inspired and developed.

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